Irony
nounid
75597·updated May 18, 2026verified
a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
polysemous
Attested in
No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- caustic remarksarcasmsatire
- plural
- Ironies
- possessive
- Irony's
- pluralpossessive
- Ironies'
Framework definitions
- §1
- incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
- §2
- witty language used to convey insults or scorn
- §3
- a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
- §1 · legacy_primary
- a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occursDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
Outgoing relationships
No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.
Incoming relationships
No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.